The day after his death, the Japanese Manchurian Army Command decided to hold a solemn funeral for Naganuma Hidefumi, whose name had been resounded throughout the Western world nine years earlier because of the Naganuma Advance Team, but for the British and American consuls, businessmen, and journalists who followed the Manchurian Army in Anton. At the funeral, Senior General Yusaku Uehara, Chief of the General Staff of the Manchurian Army, not only recalled the heroic experience of Major General Naganuma leading dozens of cavalrymen behind enemy lines nine years ago, but also severely condemned the Revival Army's covert shooting of Japanese officers for violating the norms of the civilized world and losing chivalry.

The background of this qiē is that in this anti-support operation, the Japanese army was unable to adapt to the tactics that the revival army had previously tried to hide, and in just a few days, seven merchant ships were sunk and more than 50 scout cavalry were killed. Nowadays, it is difficult for the Japanese army to transport supplies and troops to reconnoitre, especially the latter, so that the cavalry officers who have tried to maintain their military honor are often gone. The eradication of the spy network all over China, the loss of contact with Manchuria's original network of relations due to the clear of the wall, and the inability to even conduct battlefield reconnaissance made the Japanese army feel that although they occupied Anton, they were simply blind and deaf, and they did not know anything about where the Chinese army was and what it was doing.

During the Sino-Japanese War, Japanese spies were able to get the ammunition and guns of the Qing army, and during the War, Japanese spies knew the location of the entire Lushun fortress, the number of wagons on the Eastern Qing Dynasty, and even the Trans-Siberian Railway, but today they have nothing but carefully drawn maps in their hands - even the carefully drawn maps are now ineffective. The wells marked above, the grain and poultry that were counted have all disappeared without a trace.

On the day of Naganuma Hidefumi's funeral, the commander of the Manchurian Army, Oyama Iwa, convened a military intelligence meeting with his subordinates. In addition to Senior General Yusaku Uehara, Chief of the General Staff, Lieutenant General Motojiro Akashi, Major General Masataro Fukuda, Director of the Second Division of the General Staff Headquarters, Chief of the Seventh Section (Shina Branch) Doi Ichinojin Osa, Staff Officer of the Kanto Prefecture Koshoaki Koshikata, and Ronin Kotaro Sokata of the Mainland.

The Chief of the General Staff, Senior General Yusaku Uehara, received a signal from Oyama Iwa. began to make an opening remarks: "Gentlemen, this anti-interpolity operation in China was beyond our expectations, and our army now has no way of knowing the deployment, quantity, morale, weapons, ammunition, etc. of the China Army, nor can we know the thoughts and determinations of Yang Jingcheng and other heads of government. These are things that we should know, and although our allies are constantly providing us with information, except for the missionaries, the activities of the whites are too conspicuous in various places, and only the Japanese, who are also of the yellow race, can better detect all kinds of information in China. The purpose of convening you here today is to discuss a countermeasure against the anti-Japanese actions in China. We must not fight a war blindly, and the effective acquisition of information about China is related to the victory or defeat of the war and the national fortunes of the empire. Gentlemen, do not neglect it! ”

After General Uehara Yusaku finished speaking, he stood up and bowed to all the attendees, which made these people hurriedly stand up and salute in return, and after everyone sat down, Major General Masataro Fukuda, who was in charge of the situation, said ashamedly: "It is my work that has not done a good job, and I have not done a good job of preventing the anti-intermediary action in China, and I ask Your Excellency the Commander-in-Chief to remove me from my post!" ”

Maj. Gen. Masataro Fukuda said. The head of the Seventh Section, who was specifically in charge of the Seventh Section, Doi Ichinojin Osa, also stood up and said, "Actually, I didn't do my job well, so please remove me from my post first." ”

Seeing that intelligence countermeasures would tend to turn into intelligence criticism meetings, Commander-in-Chief Oyama Iwa said, "Now it's not about holding anyone responsible, but about finding feasible countermeasures." Sit down! ”

The commander-in-chief spoke, stood up and sat down with Fukuda and Doi, who were ashamed to accept the guilt, and Yusaku Uehara, who was presiding over the meeting, said, "Your Lords, please tell me about the countermeasures." Can an effective intelligence network be re-established in China? ”

After Yusaku Uehara finished speaking, he looked at Masataro Fukuda and saw that he didn't speak. He also looked at the head of the Shina Section, Doi Ichinojin, and saw that he did not speak. I had to look at the Kwantung Governor's Mansion again, this is finally able to speak, Xiao Kuni Zhao Shaozo stood up and said: "Your Excellency, it is impossible to establish a new intelligence network in China in a short period of time, the control of the government of China against the people, it can be seen from the salt monopoly, the people buy salt with the household registration book, and the purchase volume is recorded every month, once it decreases or increases, the store will ask the buyer to explain, if the explanation is unreasonable, then the local neighborhood committee or peasant association will be notified to visit and investigate, The implementation of such a method has completely eliminated the illegal salt trade. This is just table salt, and when people go out of the county, take a train, take a telegram, or appear in sensitive areas, they need to show their household registration book, and the household registration book is printed by the banknote printing factory, which is difficult to forge.

In addition to these rigid controls, the Yang government also promoted the idea of anti-intermittent and anti-special affairs in peasant associations and neighborhood committees, and was very wary of strangers who appeared rashly, and even some idlers would follow them and even take the initiative to interrogate them; Among the officials, the matter of Ishikawa Yoshishi was widely publicized during the First Sino-Japanese War, and with the cases of Wu Yangzeng and Zhang Hongzhao last year, the officials of China will no longer have the slightest sense of secrecy as before. ”

Seeing this, Akashi Genjiro said: "There are always hostile people in any government, and these hostile people can always help us do what we can't do." Many of the laws of the Shina government were detrimental to the interests of the landlords, and wouldn't these people rebel against them? ”

"Your Excellency, the situation in China is different from that of Lu, although the landlords are not on the side of the government, and they are also very dissatisfied with the Yang, but they are not proletarians, and it is impossible for them to strike, march, make trouble, and assassinate like Luguo; And those officials in the former Qing Dynasty, although they also had many complaints about the Yang family, most of them were dismissed. Most of the officials at and above the county level were recruited by the new examination of the Chinese government, and according to the Chinese people, these officials are required to undergo long-term on-the-job training before taking office, and secrecy is an important part of this, and many of these officials are revival members. We may be able to stir up the opposition to make trouble, but it will not be effective against the landlords who still have property and land, and even if they make trouble, they will not make much trouble; And officials. The cracking of the intelligence network has caused officials who were previously related to me to step down one after another, and it is difficult for us to buy officials from important departments in a short period of time. Shina Tongzong Fang Kotaro said.

"Is there no way to do it?" I thought about my activities in the country of Lu. Akashi Genjiro couldn't help but feel that what Munakata said was extremely right, and only people who had nothing would go to extremes. The government of China did not confiscate the land and property of the landlords, and their incomes were reduced, but they were able to make ends meet. If the peasants do not starve to death and do not rebel, are they not the landlords?

"There are very few ways." Kotaro Munakata said. "Although we now have two anti-Yang forces in our hands, the Zongshe Party is not only rotten, but also the Manchus in China are dissatisfied with their actions; And Sun Wen's Chinese Revolutionary Party, he is now trying to argue that Huang Xing, another leader of the Revolutionary Party, was not assassinated by him. The propaganda of the Revival Society was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and many of its members were in complete civil strife, and many of its members announced their resignation from the Chinese Revolutionary Party. Many members went to the Shanghai Concession or returned to China directly. ”

"Maybe it can be reconnoitred by airplane, like the Navy." Major General Masataro Fukuda, who didn't speak for a while, said. "I remember that the naval battle in the East China Sea began to be tracked because our seaplanes discovered enemy ships."

Masataro Fukuda's flash of inspiration only made Oyama Iwa and Yusaku Uehara nod, although the plane is a new thing, but the navy can use it as reconnaissance, and the army can also use it.

"Can we gather information through the Red Ten Society?" After the boss's suggestion, the head of the Shina Division, Doi Ichi's Nosumi Osa, also built a yì road. "China signed the Geneva Convention eight years ago, and the following year established the Qing Red Cross Society, and Lu Haihuan, one of the Sectarian Socialist Party, served as its president until the Yang clan was in power.

The second staff department came up with two strategies. In the end, Oyama Iwa and Uehara Yusaku were saddened, and the cadres added various details in detail, and the intelligence meeting ended successfully.

When the Red Cross Society of Japan was collecting intelligence, Zhu Luhe, a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in Beijing, Wu Lian, a secretary of the Ministry of Medicine, and Shen Dunhe, a native of Ningbo, president of the Red Cross Society of China, were talking with Premier Yang Rui. The topic of the conversation was not the issue of defense, but something else.

Woodrien looked at the prime minister with a solemn face in front of him, and suddenly had a subversive understanding of him. That's why such a wise prime minister doesn't have a loving heart. China is now leading the world in many aspects such as pharmaceuticals, blood transfusions, medical equipment (X-ray machines, surgery, sterilization equipment), and infusions, especially the first two. Once it is made public, it will benefit hundreds of millions of people. And these have been in practice in the revival army for many years, and the technology is mature and reliable, but why not publish it?

Feeling Woodlian's question, Yang Rui said: "I am only the prime minister of China, and I can only take care of the Chinese people, I can guarantee that after the production of No. A drug comes up, it will be used in various hospitals in China under government subsidies, but it is impossible to make it public at this time." ”

"Your Excellency, is this the reason why foreign doctors are not allowed to enter Tohoku?" Mr. Woodrien said he still had trouble imagining that the military was denying foreign doctors access to the war zone.

"Probably." Yang Rui said ambiguously. "It's better for foreign doctors not to go into the war zone. Rest assured, the military will give public opinion a good reason. ”

Yang Rui said this, and Shen Dunhe, the president of the Red Ten Society next to him, was also anxious, "Your Excellency, if the foreign doctors don't go, then the Red Cross won't have many doctors, and the soldiers will ......."

"I also know that there will be more soldiers who will die without doctors, but ......" Yang Rui frowned painfully while flashing the colorful foreign currency, and he looked at Zhu Luhe of the general rear, "If the foreign doctor of the Red Cross comes in, can it be kept secret?" ”

Zhu Luhe knew Yang Rui's thoughts, he shook his head and said, "No, sir." The effect of drug A is too obvious, and the treatment after the injury is completely different from the treatment of drug A, which is most obvious in the treatment of amputation, even if the foreign doctors do not touch the drug, but the operation still needs to be done by them. It can be said that if they enter the war zone and perform surgery, drug A cannot be kept secret! ”

"Your Excellency, Drug A should belong to the whole world, and it is inhumane for us to cause soldiers to lose doctors for the sake of secrecy." Woodrien couldn't help it, and there was some condemnation in his words.

"Drug A belongs to the whole world, but the benefits belong to different countries. Its imitation is not difficult, and before our production comes up, drug A cannot be leaked! Yang Rui didn't care about Woodrian's condemnation. Sulfonamides are a money-making tool. Before the climax of the First World War, the foreigners imitated it, and the loss was hundreds of millions of taels of silver. Now, because of the lack of dozens of foreign doctors, and more soldiers will die, there is no way to do it.

Wood Lian listened to Yang Rui and emphasized again that he could not leak secrets. had to be speechless, he and Shen Dunhe glanced at each other and had no choice but to leave. After they left, Yang Rui wanted to send Zhu Luhe away, but he still couldn't bear to say: "How many medical personnel are lacking now?" ”

"Nurses have always been enough, but because the military doctors are expanding too fast, they can only do one to two doctors per regiment, except for a small number of these people who are before us, the rest are from the Beiyang Military Medical Hall, they have little experience in battle formations, I am afraid that they may not be able to use them." Zhu Luhe said. "Prime Minister, maybe you can give it a try. As long as the foreign doctor does not come into direct contact with the drug, it is fine. ”

"In wartime, you can promise not to ask?" Yang Rui asked: "Maybe the foreigners don't know what medicine we use, but it doesn't mean that these people won't say it." Once the Japanese find out, won't they just grab it? You must know that we have been using the medicine for several years, and the secrecy work has also been done for several years, and Qingyuan was still saved by this medicine back then, if we leak the secret in a battle with Little Japan, it will be a great loss. Let's go to the United States and Nanyang to recruit, remember to only recruit Chinese doctors. ”

Yang Rui has made up his mind. Zhu Luhe had no choice but to stand up and salute and take his leave, and the three actions of the Chinese government in the afternoon of the same day were denounced by the English newspapers of the concession as being more barbaric than the former Qing government! The newspapers in the concession were completely controlled by the British, but the Chinese government, which had already withdrawn postal rights, did not deliver them at all. Although the British protested, they were helpless, after all, this non-delivery is only for Chinese and not foreigners. Domestic public opinion Britain cannot influence. But Yang Rui was worried that Britain, a 10,000-year-old-stirring stick, would affect China's reputation abroad, and sent Zhu Luhe away. He immediately summoned Wang Xiaolin from the Ministry of Rites.

"What is the international narrative now?" Yang Rui asked, "Or are we barbaric?" Is Japan civilized? ”

"British public opinion has reported this, so the bonds we sold in Europe and Britain before are now extremely low in the market, especially since the Japanese crossed the Yalu River within a few days of the start of the war, and many British newspapers have already speculated how much we will lose if we are defeated." Wang Xiaolin said that he, a young man, also began to grow a beard.

"Hmm." Yang Rui would have had such an expression, "What about other places?" What is the current situation of the European continent, the United States, the South Seas? What do overseas Chinese say? ”

"Most of the French public opinion in Europe was on the side of the British, and they believed that since China could not bring happiness to the inhabitants of Manchuria, it was the best choice to hand over Manchuria to Japan." Wang Xiaolin said. "Public opinion in Germany, on the contrary to France, unanimously condemned Japan's aggression against an entire country, while the other countries looked at their positions, Belgium was completely on the side of Britain, and some of the other countries condemned Japan, and some were indifferent. The situation in the United States is better than imagined, and in recent years, the contradictions between the United States and Japan have been deep, and everyone in China, from the upper strata to the middle and lower strata, has condemned Japan's attack on Northeast China...... By the way, Prime Minister, there are some Americans who also go to our legation in the hope of helping us resist aggression as volunteers. ”

"Hehe......" Hearing this, Yang Rui suddenly smiled, Americans love to pretend to be the boss and like to help the weak to instill their own values, and now there is a posture, he said, "If it is suitable, it is acceptable to have a batch, but the number of people cannot be too many." I'll leave this matter to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Intelligence Bureau, and the General Staff. He said this to the secretary that this mention would be quickly sent to the Intelligence Bureau, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the General Staff, and if feasible, the American volunteers would be taken over.

"On the overseas Chinese side, we had already done some foreshadowing propaganda before the war, so they did not react much to the Japanese occupation of Andong and Ji'an, and now the overseas Chinese newspapers in Nanyang and the Americas have opened war columns, specifically introducing the situation of the Chinese and Japanese armies, the development of the war, and other news, and such columns have also been opened in China, and some civilian soldiers have also frequently published articles on it, and everyone is very enthusiastic. Among overseas Chinese, war bonds are selling very well, and some overseas Chinese want to organize anti-Japanese volunteers to go to the northeast, and many domestic students have gone to various civil affairs bureaus to sign up for the army. Wang Xiaolin said. It was Yang Rui's order to let the people participate in the war, and now the Propaganda Department of the Ministry of Rites is running in accordance with this policy, a foreign war, a victorious foreign war, is enough to arouse the people's patriotic enthusiasm.

"It's good not to criticize!" Yang Rui is clear about the war bonds, the anti-Japanese volunteers, and the signing up of domestic college and middle school students to join the army, he is just worried that overseas Chinese will be dissatisfied with the government's strategic retreat in the early stage, and now I heard that everyone has not criticized. Then rest assured.

"Sir, as long as Japan does not occupy Liaoyang and does not encircle and annihilate most of our army. And in the process of retreating, we can continue to attack the Japanese army, and the overseas Chinese will not criticize the government. Wang Xiaolin said.

He felt as if his husband was thinking something was wrong. Overseas Chinese who are truly patriotic will not scold the government for a small defeat of the Renaissance Army, but when there is a small defeat, they will find all kinds of excuses and reasons for the army and look forward to the final victory of the war. Only those who are not patriotic in the first place will grasp the slightest fault and bite it, even if China's victory is just to silence them. Revival will be as righteous as the world, comparable to the previous Ming, although the rent reduction will offend people. But after all, they still left a line, did not offend to death, and if those landlords turned to industry, the Ministry of Industry would support them more than ordinary people; The real hatred of the government was the bureaucrats who had all kinds of black gains during the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but lost them because of the revolution and were confiscated by the government. Although these people hate, they still do things like Confucianism, dare to discuss but not dare to revolution, and love to show the style of a gentleman in everything, and attach great importance to the appearance of ethics. So the behavior is still relatively peaceful.

"Don't occupy Liaoyang?" Yang Rui didn't expect that there was a misunderstanding in his thinking, he had seen the water stickers in later generations.

"Yes! The importance of Liaoyang is because the last Russo-Japanese War is well known to the world, once Liaoyang is occupied, then Shenyang will be in danger. Therefore, we judge that the bottom line of the people is that Liaoyang cannot be occupied by Japan, and there is the line of Jinzhou Shanhaiguan, if it is occupied by the Japanese army. That would also make the people uproar. Wang Xiaolin said.

Yang Rui had been thinking about the defense of the capital for a long time, and then it was the defense of Shenyang. But looking at the current shape, Haicheng cannot be occupied by the Japanese army. Once this is the case, then the Japanese 1st, 2nd, and 3rd armies will be trained in a single line. "There is no need to worry about this, the General Staff will not let Japan hit Liaoyang, so rest assured on your side. There is also the matter of killing the Japanese general Naganuma Hidefumi, how is the Ministry of Rites going to publicize it? Have you set the tone? ”

Wang Xiaolin had been prepared for this matter for a long time, and when he heard this, he replied: "In addition to thinking about the propaganda of Cao Guoshi, who killed Naganuma Hidefumi, the Propaganda Department is also preparing to make a special sniper propaganda report in the China Times, so I want to start ...... Starting with Lieutenant Colonel Bai Ru, the wife of Chen Guangshou, publicized the achievements of the sniper unit in previous wars......"

"Don't do it!" Yang Rui suddenly interrupted. "I mean that the domestic record should not be publicized too much, and if you talk too much, you will provoke hatred, which is not in line with the principle of harmony; And this Cao Guoshi don't publicize too much, each company of the Fuxing Army has a sniper group, and there are more than 10,000 teams in the whole army, and the propaganda is important for the individual, but the collective must not forget it. Let's open a column in the newspaper, list a sniper number every day, and then introduce those who have the top sniper results to everyone.

There are also those Japanese who sniped, and it is better to have information, what they did during the First Sino-Japanese War, what they did during the Japanese and Russian periods, and those who have a good impression of China are because they were poisoned by Japanese aggression and died a pitiful death; Those who do not have a good impression of China will be guilty of their deaths, and they will be innocent ...... death. I'm just giving you an example, if you think it's good, use it, and if it's bad, don't use it. ”

Yang Rui was afraid that those people below would always bring such a sentence at the end in order to please him, and he would always bring such a sentence at the end in order to please himself, Wang Xiaolin had long been used to it, and he smiled: "There is nothing bad about Mr.'s idea, I'll do it." ”

The China Times revised its edition on the second day, and the layout of the new newspaper was doubled, but this is not strange, the real strange thing is that there is a row of eighteen crossed-out Japanese heads in the upper left box of the front page, and the small text below is: Our army killed eighteen Japanese invading troops today, see page B3 for details; There are two more lines below: the life of Hidebun Nagumuma, which is detailed in the fourth edition; Among the thousands of troops, the enemy chief is in a moment - interview with the sniper Sergeant Cao Guoshi, see the first edition for details......

As soon as the newspaper came out on this day, Luoyang paper was expensive, and the column showed the daily combat and life of the soldiers in front of the world, only making the people feel that these soldiers were amiable and lovely.

Cao Guoshi is really famous this time, he is in Xiuyan County at this time, and Li Shutong, the commander of the 7th Army, personally awarded him the medal, and then patted him on the shoulder and said: "Good guy! Take out a major general with one shot, and take out another lieutenant general next time. ”

A sergeant was so expected by the military commander, Cao Guoshi suddenly didn't know where to put it, fortunately, the military regulations made him try his best to maintain an upright posture, but he kept smirking on his face: "Report to the chief, that's me...... It's my luck. When Deng Guru and he retreated, they met many companions after walking a few miles, and there were many monks and few porridges, he was just in a hurry.

Hearing what the honest sergeant in front of him said, Uncle Li said with a smile, "The prime minister said that character will not be conserved, and unlucky people are often unlucky, and those who are lucky will have good luck in their lives." Do a good job, 40,000,000 people are watching you! (To be continued......)